You can't 'give' anything to anybody, you have to step aside and allow people to build it, so libertarians are the ones with the common sense, the rest are mostly ignorant.
The problem with the poor is that there are many powerful forces that are keeping them poor - their governments, whatever those governments are, whatever shape they take, they prevent people from rising from poverty.
African countries have been getting financial aid for half a century, much good it did them. All of a sudden the Chinese come to Africa with a different promise - a promise of trade and they establish trade relations and they start producing in Africa, buy mining companies, lands, hire Africans and start working. Go and as an average African who do they prefer Chinese or Americans?
Guess what, it's the Americans that have been giving this 'aid' to Africa for 50 years and the Chinese trade with them not for free, but in exchange for productive output - work. And yet the Africans today prefer the Chinese, not the Americans.
If you do not want to see people murdered, then you have to do something about it and it means you have to put down your liberal, progressive, republican flags and actually do something that is needed to be done to restore the freedoms and the Republic.
If you do not want to see a civil war that will surely erupt because at the current direction the collapse of society is imminent given the imminent collapse of economy, then you have to do something totally radically different before the blood is spilled.
You can get rid of the people who are running the show by voting, it is possible, you have to vote in the TRUE Republicans, not the Republicans of the Republican party but the LIBERTARIANS.
You have to vote in people like Ron Paul or Garry Johnson.
There are a number of senatorial races where libertarians took over just now and there are some more where more libertarians may take over, you better be cheering for them and you better be helping them unless you WANT bloodshed, and there WILL BE bloodshed and yes, many people will die, and it's not because people want to kill each other, it's because there will be no more choices left.
'agrees' is a funny word when it comes to this sort of thing. It's like agreeing to being fucked in the ass, because if you don't, then you get your throat cut.
Really? Cost IRS? IRS isn't paying for anything, it's an agency that uses nefarious tactics to steal productivity from people and to ensure that enough voters continue supporting the redistribution of wealth.
IRS is the slave manager, it's the guy with the whip working for the pharaoh. "Cost IRS"?! Any money that IRS isn't getting is money that government shouldn't be spending, that's all there is to it.
It is not only cyber-crime estimates that are coming from one or two self-reported unverified people. All the economy related numbers are made up, reverse engineered, adjusted to fit the narrative of the political power.
1 Trillion USD losses to cyber-crime? So taking the 15 Trillion GDP figure at face value (which you must not make mistake of doing), it means that over 6% of the GDP is lost due to all this 'cyber-crime'. 6%. The entire USA agriculture sector is 4% of the reported GDP.
All people should resist any central authority trying to take control over the Internet. Basically it is absolutely irrelevant who tries to do it, whoever gains control over the networks becomes the single point of failure, and if the control is real (true control with ability to shut networks down, disconnect networks etc.) then the question only becomes not 'if' but 'when' this central authority will use it for its nefarious purposes, and all purposes are nefarious when it comes to shutting down parts of the Internet (or the entire thing).
Even little power in hands of people with an agenda is detrimental, never mind power to do the same over the entire Internet.
When the LHC is working, there are about 600 million collisions per second. But we only record here about one in 10^13 (ten trillion).
If you were to digitize all the information from a collision in a detector, itâ(TM)s about a petabyte a second or a million gigabytes per second.
600,000,000 collisions per second
they are recording 1 in 10,000,000,000,000 collisions, or 1 trillion over 600 million, which is 16666.7 seconds, or 1 in 277.8 minutes or 1 in 4.6 hours.
I wonder how they came up with this ratio? Is this just a strange numerological coincidence that this ratio (16666.7) is the same as the number of dollars that every person in USA now owes additionally since Obama came to office? 5000,000,000,000 / 300,000,000 (5 Trillion USD added to the debt over 300 million people).
Oh, you want competition in utilities? Why would you want competition in utilities? Utilities are so hard to do, it's better if they are monopolized. Monopoly in utilities is working out well. Look at all the sewer and water and electricity and roads and cable and phone land lines. Competition would create too many problems, like various extra work and all these jobs and people would be hired and innovation would happen and prices may come down and we may have too many choices.
It's not good to have competition and to have choices and to have lower prices. Government is the answer.
I have a strange disorder, where I can't recognize words by shape, I have to read the words specifically, very carefully before I know what they are. It's unfortunate.
the courts should be totally predictable based on the LAW, but instead nowadays they are totally predictable based on their political affiliations and based on the money trail.
In case of SCOTUS the courts SHOULD be replaced with a computer program that just compares the case to the Constitution and always sides with the Constitution.
That would fix so many problems in US, it's not even funny. SCOTUS has been failing the US for over 100 years now.
Why would you describe it as a bubble?
It's not like people invest their savings into hearing aid devices by buying them right now to sell them at a higher price later on.
The prices are going up for new models, the old models are not going up in price, so you can't buy an old one now and sell it at a premium later on.
This is a price increase based on increase of demand and the fact that it's so hard to qualify under the FDA to be a producer and seller, so whoever produces/sells them now is in a position of having a monopoly, it's not a bubble.
You know what be better than a court decision like this?
A full scale battle between Oracle and SAP.
Battlestations, fighter planes, aircraft carriers, tanks, bombs, missiles, rifles, grenade launchers.
Oh, the entertainment value alone.... And they would spend much more than 272 Million, this would "create stimulus" (in the words of Krugman), but come one! It would be fun.
Larry Ellison on a white horse, Bill McDermott on a black one.
2 spears. 2 shields. 2 big swords. Last man standing wins.
Come on. COME ON!!!
Well, one thing you surely can't do is count GNU/Linux installations with Netflix.
This is what "Linux Counter" can be used for - to prove that there is enough demand in this market.
People don't know about this counter thing, why not make it a game for GNU/Linux and have it for download, and then count every download?
How about using the counter as a game portal as well, and have an option in the game to have you counted?
For servers maybe there should be another option, count download of some different types of server software (maybe count Apache for Linux Server)?
Use some unique machine identifier data not to count the same machine twice.
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You can't 'give' anything to anybody, you have to step aside and allow people to build it, so libertarians are the ones with the common sense, the rest are mostly ignorant. The problem with the poor is that there are many powerful forces that are keeping them poor - their governments, whatever those governments are, whatever shape they take, they prevent people from rising from poverty. African countries have been getting financial aid for half a century, much good it did them. All of a sudden the Chinese come to Africa with a different promise - a promise of trade and they establish trade relations and they start producing in Africa, buy mining companies, lands, hire Africans and start working. Go and as an average African who do they prefer Chinese or Americans? Guess what, it's the Americans that have been giving this 'aid' to Africa for 50 years and the Chinese trade with them not for free, but in exchange for productive output - work. And yet the Africans today prefer the Chinese, not the Americans.
If you do not want to see people murdered, then you have to do something about it and it means you have to put down your liberal, progressive, republican flags and actually do something that is needed to be done to restore the freedoms and the Republic.
If you do not want to see a civil war that will surely erupt because at the current direction the collapse of society is imminent given the imminent collapse of economy, then you have to do something totally radically different before the blood is spilled.
You can get rid of the people who are running the show by voting, it is possible, you have to vote in the TRUE Republicans, not the Republicans of the Republican party but the LIBERTARIANS.
You have to vote in people like Ron Paul or Garry Johnson.
There are a number of senatorial races where libertarians took over just now and there are some more where more libertarians may take over, you better be cheering for them and you better be helping them unless you WANT bloodshed, and there WILL BE bloodshed and yes, many people will die, and it's not because people want to kill each other, it's because there will be no more choices left.
'agrees' is a funny word when it comes to this sort of thing. It's like agreeing to being fucked in the ass, because if you don't, then you get your throat cut.
It's funny, how this is phrased: 'cost IRS'.
Really? Cost IRS? IRS isn't paying for anything, it's an agency that uses nefarious tactics to steal productivity from people and to ensure that enough voters continue supporting the redistribution of wealth.
IRS is the slave manager, it's the guy with the whip working for the pharaoh. "Cost IRS"?! Any money that IRS isn't getting is money that government shouldn't be spending, that's all there is to it.
It is not only cyber-crime estimates that are coming from one or two self-reported unverified people. All the economy related numbers are made up, reverse engineered, adjusted to fit the narrative of the political power.
1 Trillion USD losses to cyber-crime? So taking the 15 Trillion GDP figure at face value (which you must not make mistake of doing), it means that over 6% of the GDP is lost due to all this 'cyber-crime'. 6%. The entire USA agriculture sector is 4% of the reported GDP.
I find your nickname strangely appropriate for the comment you made on this story!
It does sound like RIM is already dead, it just doesn't know it yet.
All people should resist any central authority trying to take control over the Internet. Basically it is absolutely irrelevant who tries to do it, whoever gains control over the networks becomes the single point of failure, and if the control is real (true control with ability to shut networks down, disconnect networks etc.) then the question only becomes not 'if' but 'when' this central authority will use it for its nefarious purposes, and all purposes are nefarious when it comes to shutting down parts of the Internet (or the entire thing). Even little power in hands of people with an agenda is detrimental, never mind power to do the same over the entire Internet.
When the LHC is working, there are about 600 million collisions per second. But we only record here about one in 10^13 (ten trillion).
If you were to digitize all the information from a collision in a detector, itâ(TM)s about a petabyte a second or a million gigabytes per second.
600,000,000 collisions per second
they are recording 1 in 10,000,000,000,000 collisions, or 1 trillion over 600 million, which is 16666.7 seconds, or 1 in 277.8 minutes or 1 in 4.6 hours.
I wonder how they came up with this ratio? Is this just a strange numerological coincidence that this ratio (16666.7) is the same as the number of dollars that every person in USA now owes additionally since Obama came to office? 5000,000,000,000 / 300,000,000 (5 Trillion USD added to the debt over 300 million people).
Obviously this is not a coincidence, it's a plot!
Malfeasance is on the part of the government that puts barriers to doing business while talking about lack of jobs.
Not enough cuts. Thousand cuts won't cut it, it needs millions of cuts. It needs everybody to step up and cut it.
YOU THERE! Yes, YOU. You have to cut TSA as well (cut an agent, get some bonus points in your next life).
Oh, you want competition in utilities? Why would you want competition in utilities? Utilities are so hard to do, it's better if they are monopolized. Monopoly in utilities is working out well. Look at all the sewer and water and electricity and roads and cable and phone land lines. Competition would create too many problems, like various extra work and all these jobs and people would be hired and innovation would happen and prices may come down and we may have too many choices.
It's not good to have competition and to have choices and to have lower prices. Government is the answer.
I have a strange disorder, where I can't recognize words by shape, I have to read the words specifically, very carefully before I know what they are. It's unfortunate.
Hey, stay on topic. They didn't mention anything about money in the story...
We can't find the original list price, but one source indicates that it cost around $5 to manufacture, or $26 in today's money.
oh wait, they did.
Can anybody handle the truth nowadays? Judging by that moderation pattern it seems unlikely.
the courts should be totally predictable based on the LAW, but instead nowadays they are totally predictable based on their political affiliations and based on the money trail.
In case of SCOTUS the courts SHOULD be replaced with a computer program that just compares the case to the Constitution and always sides with the Constitution.
That would fix so many problems in US, it's not even funny. SCOTUS has been failing the US for over 100 years now.
and this neo-con fox view garbage gets +4? This is what, not slash-dot but fox-dot here?
Speak for yourself. You need 6 beers and a bottle of vodka here.
dumb ass, look at the report email and the nick of the GP.
Yeah, fuck those moms and pops shops, right? Who the hell needs those? moron.
I only have one question: where does the beer go and can I have it (in a plastic bag, whatever, if you aren't going to?)
Why would you describe it as a bubble? It's not like people invest their savings into hearing aid devices by buying them right now to sell them at a higher price later on. The prices are going up for new models, the old models are not going up in price, so you can't buy an old one now and sell it at a premium later on. This is a price increase based on increase of demand and the fact that it's so hard to qualify under the FDA to be a producer and seller, so whoever produces/sells them now is in a position of having a monopoly, it's not a bubble.
You know what be better than a court decision like this? A full scale battle between Oracle and SAP. Battlestations, fighter planes, aircraft carriers, tanks, bombs, missiles, rifles, grenade launchers. Oh, the entertainment value alone.... And they would spend much more than 272 Million, this would "create stimulus" (in the words of Krugman), but come one! It would be fun. Larry Ellison on a white horse, Bill McDermott on a black one. 2 spears. 2 shields. 2 big swords. Last man standing wins. Come on. COME ON!!!
Well, one thing you surely can't do is count GNU/Linux installations with Netflix. This is what "Linux Counter" can be used for - to prove that there is enough demand in this market.
People don't know about this counter thing, why not make it a game for GNU/Linux and have it for download, and then count every download? How about using the counter as a game portal as well, and have an option in the game to have you counted? For servers maybe there should be another option, count download of some different types of server software (maybe count Apache for Linux Server)? Use some unique machine identifier data not to count the same machine twice.
The only really interesting comments are at -1 Troll as they normally are on such stories.